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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Size
Ignorance
Pure
Length
Wide
Sky

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